ISBN: 9780824828219 - the record of linji (nanzan library of asian religion and culture) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. bilingual edition. 485 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorThomas Yuho Kirchner (Editor) Thomas Yuho Kirchner is associate researcher at the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism at Hanazono University in Kyoto. He spent ten years in Japanese Rinzai Zen monasteries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), it serves as both an authoritative statement of Zen's basic stand-point and a central source of material for Zen koan practice.One of the earliest attempts to translate this important work into English was by Sasaki Shigetsu (1882-1945), a pioneer Zen master in the U.S. and the founder of the First Zen Institute of America. At the time of his death, he entrusted the project to his wife, Ruth Fuller Sasaki. Determined to produce a definitive translation, Mrs. Sasaki assembled a team of talented young scholars, both Japanese and Western, who in the following years retranslated the text in accordance with modern research on Tang-dynasty colloquial Chinese.The materials assembled by Mrs. Sasaki and her team are finally available in the present edition of the ''Record of Linji''. The notes, nearly six hundred in all, are almost entirely based on primary sources and thus retain their value despite the nearly forty years since their preparation.…

Zustand: New. A retranslation of "The Linji lu" (a compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d 866)), in accordance with the research on Tang-dynasty colloquial Chinese. Editor(s): Kirchner, Thomas Yuho. Series: Nanzan Library of Asian Religion & Culture. Num Pages: 494 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRES; HREZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 816. . 2008. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …